Know Your Invasive Plants
Next week, July 21-25, is California Invasive Weeds Awareness Week.
Month: July 2008
Endangered Species
The Wildling Art Museum presents a lecture by author and filmmaker Michael Tobias called The Art of Saving Endangered Species, in which he will address current world strategies for protecting endangered habitat and species around the globe.
Katie Laris Directs Twelve Angry Men
Trial by jury occupies such a central place in the American system of justice that it can be easy to forget that it does not enjoy the same exalted status in other parts of the world.
Rumors
Upstairs, Charley Brock, the deputy mayor of New York, is recovering from a minor, apparently self-inflicted bullet wound, while below, in the living room of the Brock’s elegant, old-fashioned New York mansion, four couples participate in a kind of inadvertent contest to see who can make up the most outlandish story about what happened to him.
Olympic Feats
1) In what year did the summer and winter Olympics go from being every four years to alternating every two years?
Lovin’ the Lotus
Celebrate the namesake of Lotusland at LotusFest (Sat., July 19, 2-5pm) with an afternoon of wine tasting with some of S.B. County’s premier vintners, delectable hors d’oeuvres, mellow jazz, and Ikebana demonstrations.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Guillermo del Toro may be a genius, but in real life he’s insanely funny.
Jerry Roberts
Before coming to town to be editor of the once influential Santa Barbara News-Press, Jerry Roberts spent more than 20 years as a reporter and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and, early on for a short stint, the weekly Bay Guardian.
Ojai Rocks
For the 18th year in a row, the diverse and talented members of the Ojai Band are hosting weekly concerts in the park at Libbey Park (at Ojai Ave. and Signal St.).
Give a Little
The ASSE International Student Exchange Program is seeking local host families for high school boys and girls ages 15-18.
